Rehab & Recovery

Make sure there is rationale for its prescription.

Trying to convince a combat athlete that thoracic spine mobility drills will help him in the octagon is like trying to convince my girlfriend that size doesn’t matter.

The brain sends electrical impulses through the nerves to obtain voluntary muscle contractions.

Assuming we have someone who is fully motivated and has an adequate strength and conditioning program at his disposal, it’s time we address the educational component of action persuasion.

Whether you’re pressed for time or want to get straight to the weight, the thought of skipping over those warm-up exercises and routines seems to always cross our mind.

Lower back pain can be a common pain source for powerlifters and other strength athletes.

The real purpose of this article is for me to explain the stretching regimen that I do daily to ward off the sciatic pain.

Over the course of a few months, I frequently witnessed a person leave the physical therapy clinic restored to “functional capacity” only to return later with the same injury on a different limb, a different injury surrounding the original site of surgery/rehabilitation, or even worse, the same injury on the same limb.

As a Powerlifting Coach and as a professional Clinical Social Worker, when I think about the concept "recovery," I used to define it two different ways depending what hat I was wearing at the time.

Overtraining is a result of training stress in addition to the rest of life’s stresses exceeding an athlete’s ability to recover.

I’ve had so much pain in my lower back that it's hard to get up or sit down in a chair, let alone try to squat or deadlift a couple hundred pounds.

If you beat yourself up training like I do, you are going to love this article.